How to Use cosmic microwave background in a Sentence

cosmic microwave background

noun

• The cosmic microwave background was first observed half a century ago, a serendipitous hiss picked up by an antenna in Holmdel, N.J.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• That first release of light is still visible in the sky as the cosmic microwave background.
  — Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Among other things, the researchers will use what is called a cosmic microwave background, or CMB.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• That’s when the cosmic microwave background was emitted, is when that happens.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
• From there, the team began using microwaves from the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
• The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is essentially the leftover heat from the birth of our universe.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Oct. 2022
• The anomalies in the cosmic microwave background have been, and remain, a thorn in the side of the standard cosmological model.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2019
• The electrons then smash into the ambient photons that pervade the universe as a part of the cosmic microwave background and send them speeding through the galaxy.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2019
• One uses the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the faint afterglow of the Big Bang.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• This process released radiation called the cosmic microwave background that provides a snapshot of the universe at the time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
• The main telescope in Antarctica is cosmic microwave background (CMB), which looks for the residual light from the formation of the universe.
  — Fox News, 11 Feb. 2020
• That's at odds with the best estimates from Planck, a European Space Agency telescope that made the best measurements to date of the cosmic microwave background.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• This cosmic microwave background, or CMB, was first detected in 1964.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 15 June 2021
• That event released an enormous amount of light that remains today in something called the cosmic microwave background, which serves as a baby picture of the universe.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
• But then came more detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
• Yes, space is generally cold, around 3 Kelvin, due to a bath of radiation soaking the universe known as the cosmic microwave background.
  — Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• That’s because all the evidence comes from distant objects that emitted light many billions of years in the past, such as supernovas, and the cosmic microwave background, which is an echo of the Big Bang itself.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
• This energy, known as the cosmic microwave background, was discovered by accident in the 1960s.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• In particular, the model can match the kind of fluctuations seen in the cosmic microwave background, the fossil radiation from the big bang.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• That's because of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the afterglow of the Big Bang that pervades the universe, discovered in 1964.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
• In the mid-1960s, the cosmic microwave background — widely interpreted as the leftover glow predicted by the Big Bang — was discovered.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Even the cosmic microwave background—the remnant light from the first clear moments in the universe’s history—shows fingerprints of dark energy’s effects.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• There are, however, other ways to look for dark stars, such as via their signatures in the cosmic microwave background—the faint glow of radiation left over from when our universe was hot and young.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
• These signals turned out to be the cosmic microwave background radiation that permeates the universe.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2023
• In fact, neutrinos are the second most ubiquitous particles, second only to the cosmic microwave background photons left over from the Big Bang.
  — Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• There are other clues out there, like the way light from remote stars bends on its journey to us, and the consistency of the cosmic microwave background, and the elliptical and spiraling shapes of galaxies.
  — Ryan Bradley, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• On the horizon is the next generation of cosmic microwave background measurements.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
• For example, space is filled radiation lingering from the big bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
• The dark matter was observed indirectly, using light from the cosmic microwave background as a backlight to silhouette the matter.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024